24th Congress of International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences, 29 August-3, September 2004, Yokohama, Japan
Paper ICAS 2004-1.6.2

TAIL-SITTER VTOL-UAV RESEARCH PROJECT OVERVIEW

T. Udagawa, T. Chisaka, R. Ishii*
Technical Research and Development Institute, Japan Defense Agency, Japan; *Fuji Heavy Industries Ltd., Japan

Keywords: UAV, VTOL, tail-sitter, flight control, thrust-vectoring

The present study aims at applying tail-sitter VTOL technique to medium-range (MR) class UAVs in order to overcome inconveniences caused by parachute recovery. This paper describes a general view of the research program and the characteristic features of each prototype model.

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